The series, according to Fox, will focus on Annie (Jaime Pressly) and Nikki (Finneran), who are "former high school outcasts whose pasts inform their current parenting styles. Annie, who was raised in an ultra-strict, über-religious household where she had little-to-no freedom, pretty much allows her daughter, Sophie (Kristi Lauren), to do whatever she wants. Nikki, once an unpopular, overweight social pariah, has reinvented herself as a pretty Southern belle whose top priority is providing her daughter, Mackenzie (Aisha Dee), with the childhood she never had. Sophie and Mackenzie are best friends, which leads to a lot of co-parenting for Annie and Nikki. They have given the girls everything they asked for and everything they never had: clothes, money and self-esteem. The unintended consequence is they have created two mean girls just like the ones who tortured them years ago."

Finneran won a Tony Award in 2002 for her performance in Noises Off and again in 2010 for her performance in Promises, Promises. She has also been seen in Mauritius, The Iceman Cometh and Cabaret.